Know your value and you know your place in the order. To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible. - Colson Whitehead The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others. - Colson Whitehead In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. - Colson Whitehead By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. - Colson Whitehead In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America. - Colson Whitehead The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others. - Colson Whitehead What Will You Gain from Reading This Book? A better understanding of the hardships facing African Americans throughout history A new perspective of the brutality that slavery inflicted on the enslaved A perspective of how history might have turned out if a few things had been only slightly different A unique look into life in nineteenth century America An understanding of what the journey towards freedom looked like for many people, and the different ways that freedom can be misidentified A stronger interest in history and a passion to uncover the real facts about the brutality of slavery A glimpse into the unfulfilled promises that plague African Americans even today The human drive to survive, no matter how insurmountable the obstacles may seem Don't miss Colson Whitehead's bestselling novel, The Underground Railroad. His fictional take on the narrative of the life of an American slave paints a picture you won't soon forget. Own Your Copy Today!